Research Ethics Boards in Alberta
Updated November 2008
Research Ethics Boards, often called Institutional Review Boards in
the United States, exist to conduct prospective review of health research
to ensure that human subjects are adequately protected. The following
is a list of Research Ethics Boards in Alberta.
Alberta Cancer Board Research Ethics Board
Reviews: All new protocols and annual renewals from ACB researchers in Edmonton.
Other Relevant Information: The Committee is based at the Cross Cancer Institute
in Edmonton. Alberta
Cancer Board researchers in Calgary (Tom Baker Cancer Centre)
send their protocols to the Conjoint Health Research Ethics Committee (see below) for
approval. If a protocol has investigators at both the Cross Cancer Institute and the
Tom Baker Cancer Centre, the protocol can be submitted to the Conjoint Health Research
Ethics Committee, whose approval will be accepted by the ACB Ethics Committee.
E-mail: researchethics@cancerboard.ab.ca
Phone: (780) 643-4572 or (780) 643-4568, Fax (780) 643-4557
Note: committee is designated under the Health Information Act
College of Physicians and Surgeons Research Ethics Review Committee
Reviews: Protocols of Alberta physicians whose human research is ineligible to be
submitted for review to the Alberta Cancer Board Ethics Committee, U of A/Capital Health
Authority/Caritas Health Research Ethics Advisory Board, or the University of Calgary/Calgary
Health Authority Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board
Contact: Dr. Janet L. Wright,
Assistant Registrar, Ethics
2700 - 10020 100 St NW
Edmonton, AB T5J 0N3
Phone: (780) 969-4940
Email: jlwright@cpsa.ab.ca
OR Contact the Research Ethics Department
Phone: (780) 423-4764, Toll free: 1-800-561-3899
Note: committee is designated under the Health Information Act
Community Research Ethics Board of Alberta (CREBA)
Reviews Research: Protocols from researchers in Alberta who are engaged in health-related
research which involves people or their health information and who do not have access to another
research ethics board. CREBA takes a capacity building approach with practice-based researchers
and reviews research from the particular point of view of its impact on individuals, communities
and collectivities. Will review (upon request) protocols that have been submitted to other REBs
for a parallel review, for the purpose of reviewing the research from a 'community impact'
perspective.
Contact: Linda Barrett, Manager, Research Ethics Initiatives
Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
Suite 1500, 10104 - 103 Avenue
Edmonton, AB T5J 4A7
E-mail: linda.barrett@ahfmr.ab.ca
Phone: (780) 423-5727, Fax (780) 429-3509
Toll-free: 1-877-423-5727
Note: committee is designated under the Health Information Act
Red Deer College Human Research Ethics Committee
- Function: Review research proposals involving human subjects where the researchers or the
subjects are employed by or enrolled at Red Deer College.
- Grants Approval to: External researchers using Red Deer College people as subjects or
internal researchers using human subjects.
- Chair: Greg Wells, Red Deer College, Box 5005, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 5H5
- E-mail: greg.wells@rdc.ab.ca
- Phone: (403) 314-2480
University of Alberta Research Ethics Boards
Health/Medical Research
- University of Alberta Committee on Human Research Ethics
- Purpose: To recommend policy for the conduct of human research; to establish and review
ethical guidelines for human research - clinical, behavioral, and social; to guide the work
of and receive reports from Faculty Research Ethics Review Boards charged with certifying the
ethical acceptability of individual applications; to assign individual applications originating
outside of any given Faculty, including outside the University, to an appropriate Faculty
Research Ethics Board; to receive appeals of decisions made by Faculty Research Ethics Boards;
and to deal with matters arising from the implementation of the University Standards for the
Protection of Human Research Participants.
- Chair: Dr. Lynn Penrod, Human Research Protections Division
- E-mail: lynn.penrod@ualberta.ca
- Phone: (780) 492-8208 or (780) 492-1199
- http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/vpresearch/nav02.cfm?nav02=11137&nav01=11128
- Health Research Ethics Board
Comprised of 6 health faculties (Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physical Education and Recreation,
Rehabilitation Medicine, and the School of Public Health), the Capital Health Region, and the
Caritas Health Group. This Board has 2 Panels:
- Panel A: Biomedical Panel
Reviews invasive types of research, e.g. intervention studies collecting blood or tissue,
drug trials, using surgical procedures or chart reviews involving biomedical subject areas.
Contact: Judith Abbott, Administrative Coordinator
E-mail: judith.abbott@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-9724
http://www.hreb.ualberta.ca/,
https://hero.ualberta.ca/HERO
- Panel B: Health Research Panel
Reviews non-invasive research, e.g. educational, psychological and social science subject areas,
or studies that involve non-invasive monitoring, observational or descriptive studies, social or
behavioural interventions, or chart reviews in related subject areas without patient contact.
Contact: Charmaine Kabatoff, Administrative Coordinator
Email: ckabatoff@med.ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-0302
http://www.hreb.ualberta.ca/
- REBs are no longer structured at the level of departments. All REBs are faculty level committees.
Other Faculties that have REBs are:
- Faculty of Arts, Sciences and Law Research Ethics Board
- Agricultural Life & Environmental Sciences Research Ethics Board (including departments of forestry and home economics)
- School of Business Research Ethics Board
- Campus Ste. Jean Research Ethics Board
- Education, Extension, and Augustana Research Ethics Board
- Faculty of Engineering Research Ethics Board
- Environmental Health and Safety
- Faculty of Native Studies
- Physical Education & Recreation Research Ethics Board (for non-health research)
- The Department of Psychology has a Human Research Ethics Committee, for more information see:
http://www.psych.ualberta.ca/research/ethics.html
- Note: committees are designated under the Health Information Act
University of Calgary Research Ethics Boards
- Research Ethics Policy Committee
- Sets policy and acts as an appeal committee for the Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board
and the Conjoint Faculties Research Ethics Board (CFREB).
- Chair: Dr. Nigel Shrive, Department of Civil Engineering and Faculty of Kinesiology
- Phone: (403) 220-6630, Fax: (403) 282-7026
- E-mail: shrive@ucalgary.ca
- All human research requires review by either the CHREB or the CFREB. Faculty/Departmental
research ethics committees monitor the use of human subjects in teaching and in unsponsored
graduate research; Faculty/Departmental research ethics committees can forward their recommendations
to either the CHREB or CFREB.
- http://www.ucalgary.ca/research/compliance/ethics/policies/
- Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board
- Responsible for the ethical review of human research in the Faculties of:
- Kinesiology
- Medicine
- Nursing
- Physicians or other health care professionals in the Calgary Health Region
- Recruiting subjects wholly or substantially from a health care setting within the Calgary Health Region Medicine, Nursing, Kinesiology, and the Calgary Health Region.
- Contact: Russell Burrows, Energy Resources Research Bldg?3512 - 33rd St NW, Calgary AB T2L 2A6
- Phone: (403) 220-3782, Fax: (403) 289-0693
- E-mail: rburrows@ucalgary.ca
- http://www.ucalgary.ca/research/compliance/ethics/forms/chreb/
- Conjoint Faculties Research Ethics Board
- Responsible for the ethical review of human research in the following Faculties:
- Communication and Culture
- Continuing Education
- Education
- Engineering
- Environmental Design
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Fine Arts
- Haskayne School of Business
- Humanities
- Institutes associated with any of these faculties
- Law
- Science
- Social Sciences
- Social Work
- Contact: Ethics Resource Officer, c/o Office of Medical Bioethics, Heritage Medical Building 93
- Phone: (403) 220-2297 or (403) 220-7990
- Email: chreb@ucalgary.ca
- http://www.ucalgary.ca/research/compliance/ethics/forms/cfreb/
- Note: committees are designated under the Health Information Act
University of Lethbridge Human Subject Research Committee
- Reviews: All new protocols and annual renewals regarding research on human subjects carried out at the University of Lethbridge.
- Chair: Martin Lalumiere, Department of Psychology, U of L, D866 University Hall, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4
- E-mail: martin.lalumiere@uleth.ca
- Phone: (403) 329-2406
- OR Contact the Office of Research Services, 4401 University Drive Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4 Phone: (403) 329-2431, Fax: (403) 382-7185
- Note: committee is designated under the Health Information Act
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